What to Do?

As many of you know I was an apartment manager for some time... Well today, my litte man William provided me with a flash back. Occasionally we allow the boys to play in the tub. The rules are no splashing or dumping water (outside the tub). When mommy says to turn off the water, it stays off! Unfortunately the rules were not followed today... I check in on them every few minutes to make sure that the water isn't on, that they are not dumping water or making a huge mess. I usually take this time to do a load of laundry fold and put away. This time, I happened to be doing a few things up and down the stairs. So there was my first mistake... I will never again be conducting things that need to be down stairs while they are in the tub. I kept checking to see if I could here water (I can usually hear it if they try to turn it back on) and voices to make sure they were okay.

So in less than 10 minutes there was enough water on the floor do do this damage to the kitchen light. As Nicholas came running down stairs saying "Mom, William has way to much, much water." I was thinking okay, he turned the water on and I didn't hear it. No big deal. So I happened to be in the office at this time. I walked around the corner in the kitchen and water came streaming down.... I took off running up the stairs to see what had happened. My first thought was the water was on and it was overflowing the tub. Not what happened. I have this pouring jug I use to wash their hair (it has one soft side to prevent water from getting in their eyes if pressed against their forehead). He had been pouring the water over, and it must have been slowly because I was checking every few minutes to see if I heard water or splashing and voices. I didn't hear it, not one time. Lesson learned on my part. I thought I was done dealing with water damage at least for a few years... LOL. We grabbed almost every towel we own to get all the water cleaned up both upstairs and down. I put a fan out to dry it up, and Greg removed the light fixture so it could air out. We got the water up fast enough there wasn't a whole lot of damage, but frusterating none the less.